The Hackler From Grouse Hall chords by Christy Moore

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Verse 1
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 (C major)  (E major) I  (C major) am a rovin' hack (E major) ler lad
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 (C major) that loves the shamrock shore
My name is Pat McDonald
and my age is eighty -four
Beloved and well -respected
by my neighbours one and all
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 (E major) On St. Patrick (C major) 's Day
I would like to stray
round Lavey and Grouse Hall
When I was young I danced and sung
and drank strong whisky too
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It's sheep and shop  (F minor) that sold a drop
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of real old Mountain  (C major) Dew
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 (B flat major) But  (C major) Pudgin's still on every hill,
the Peelers had no call
Round Sweet Stradone
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I  (Edim) am      well known,
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round  (C major) Lavey and Grouse Hall
I used to go from town to town
for hackling was my trade
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There came the night I thought I'd  (F minor) die,
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an  (E flat major) honest living maid (B flat minor) 
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 (B flat major) For   (C major) ere it's day be night or day,
the youth would always call
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To have the crack with  (E flat major) Paddy Jack,
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the hackler from Grouse  (C major) Hall
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 (F minor) I     (C major) think it's the range
how very much the times have changed
of late Coercion, that was all,
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they're  (F minor) out with dealers on  (E flat major) their bait
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 (B flat minor) To    take it,  (C major) alas, is now alas,
the greatest crime of all
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Oh, since Balfour placed that  (E flat major) hungry beast,
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the sergeant  (C major) from Grouse Hall
Is busy too with the casserole,
he wanders night and day
He'll take a goat,
I'll buy the throat for one to better pray
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 (B flat major) The  (C major) nasty skunk,
he'll swear you're drunk,
though you've had none at all
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There is no peace around  (E flat major) the place
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since he  (C major) came to  (B flat major) Grouse  (C major) Hall
It was on pretence of his offence,
he dragged me off to jail,
Alone to dwell in a cold cell,
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me fortune to be (B flat major) wail.
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Before  (C major) he had a nap
like bedsit runs for vengeance call,
He rue'd the day he dragged away
the hackler from Rosehall.
He run't hell -bell down into hell
to search for Pudge in there,
And won't be loath to swear an oath
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he  (E flat major) found it in Kilkare.
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 (B flat major) The  (C major) nymphs are fed from foot to head,
sheets, blankets, tick and all
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Your wife undressed must  (E flat major) leave the
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nest for Jemmy for ungrows  (C major) all
Come, old and young,
clear up your lung
and sing this little song
Come join with me and let them
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see you all resent the  (B flat major) wrong
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And while I  (C major) live
I'll always give a prayer for his downfall
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And when I die, I  (E flat major) don't deny,
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 (B flat major) I'll haunt him from grows
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 (C major) tall
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